Globe-Gazette from Mason City, Iowa (2025)

SCRAMS by EA. N. Showing which way the wind blows 35 successful years I. W. Hillstrom, Globe-Gazette circulation manager, came to this newspaper Sept.

6, 1925- exactly 35 years ago. That was Labor Day and Hillstrom, who arrived here from Minneapolis, immediately plunged into the job of building circulation. Among the reminders of this important day, Hillstrom received a greeting from three Chicago magazine publishers! representatives. On the card was a drawing of Hillstrom at his typewriter and with his -present cigar. Above hung a pinup with Sept.

6 encircled. Inscribed in the margin were these words: successful years with the Globe-Gazette." Boyhood sounds One of the sounds out of his Mason City boyhood bered most vividly by Meredith Willson (in his autobiographical book, "And There I Stood With My was that of neighbor's snowshovel on a still, cold morning. In the case of Dale Ahern of the Decorah Public Opinionwell, let's have him speak for himself: "As a southern Iowa farm boy, I was sure there was ing more beautiful in the world than the song of the whip-poorwill. Now, 40 years later, exploring the wooded recesses of Woodland Acres (his acreage home near Decorah, my child-1. hood conviction has taken on new meaning.

"For me there still is no more beautiful music than the trilling of a whip-poorwill from a dusk-shrouded woodland or the bass-drum reverberations of thunder presaging a much-needed summer rainstorm. "Other sounds that intrigue me are frog choruses charming the firefly-studded darkness of early dusk, catbirds enlivening 3 wild plum thicket with their lyrical mimicry, and young foxes barking a challenge to the moon. "Like any stretch of wild earth, Woodland Acres abound in song. As I thrill to it, I realize life's richest blessings are those without price tag." Polka station In May 1949, Radio Station KNUJ went on the air for the first time from improvised studios at New Ulm, Minn. For Walter K.

Mickelson, suecessful newspaper publisher, it was a new venture and he admitted to experiencing 57 varieties of "butterflies in the stomach" when the switches were thrown. His anxiety was needless, however, as the quickly was accepted by the community and went on to some fame as the "Polka Station of the Nation." Last week the station moved into its new enlarged quarters with its parents organization, the New Ulm Daily Journal. The event was marked by a 42-pagel edition of the paper. Mickelson also is publisher of the Fairmont Daily Sentinel and is a vice president of KEYC-TV, Mankato, a sister station of KGLO-TV. Opportunity knocks The want ads are always a little unusual in Iowa Municipalities, the Iowa League of Municipalities magazine.

It's one place where the community can advertise to buy or sell such items as used fire trucks and street sweepers. But this month a couple of the classified ads are even a bit more unusual. If you want to get rid of a set of used Christmas street decorations, according to one, you can deal with the clerk at Melvin. And the town at Hartley can be contacted if anyone is interested in setting up an optometrist business, photo or shoe store there. Which are you? The first fall issue of the Mike, montlhy publication of the administrative council of the Mason City public schools, asks the question above and adds the following: A lot of people are like a wheelbarrow no good unless pushed.

Some are like canoes they have to be paddled. Some are like kites--if you don't keep a string on them, they fly away. Some are like footballs-you can't tell which way they will bounce next. Some are like balloons--full of wind and ready to blow up. Some are like trailers--they have to be pulled.

Some are like: a good watch-open face, pure gold, quietly busy and full of good works. At' your library Recommends book, then plugs library activities By RUTH UPTON good book. is the desire it gives Extension Librarian the reader to share it with With school, clubs and many other. summer dormant activities resuming, I had intended to write a general column about our library's many uses to the community. But last week I read a book that so inspired me I couldn't resist a review of it.

One of the most sustaining qualities of a Mrs. Earl Gardinier rites set Mrs. Earl (Myrtle) Gardinier, 66, died Monday at her home, 1226 S. Federal, following a long illness. She had been a lifetime resident of Mason City.

Mrs. Gardinier was born Myrtle Lucile Tuthill, daughter of Frank and Elizabeth (WhitTuthill, Aug. 6, 1894, in Mason City. She was married William Earl Gardinier Sept. 1913, in Mason City.

Surviving are her husband, two sons, Lyle and Clinton; and (six daughters, Mrs. Floyd (Lucile) Olson, Mrs. Earl (Ruth) Ross, Mrs. John (Hazel) MeCaulley, Mrs. Gordon McDougle, all of Mason City, and Marion and Bonnie Gardiat home, and 15 grandchildren and a great grandson.

Two brothers, Earl and Frankie Tuthill, and a sister, Mrs. John Dahlstrom, all of Mason City, also survive. She was preceded in death by her parents, brother and a granddaughter. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Patterson-James Funeral Chapel.

The Rev. C. W. King, pastor of the First. Church of the Open Bible, will officiate.

Burial will be in Elmwood Cemetery. Friends may call at the chapel; until the time of services. Rock Creek presents two scholarships OSAGE- -Rock Creek Lutheran Church has awarded two scholarships for the 1960-61 school. year. A scholarship for $125 was to Janice Haugen, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Arthur Haugen. This is given by the Rock Creek Brotherhood, under the chairmanship of Irving Field. It is given annually to student in a churchsupported college. Miss Haugen is enrolled at Luther College, award this year is for $100, given to a ranking student in the congregation.

This Milton Molland scholarship was given to Ronald Norby, 1950 graduate of Rockford School. He is enrolled at Iowa State University, Ames. Mrs. Arthur Haugen is chair. man of the Christian Board of the church.

The Rev. John Quamm is the pastor. Goodell woman employed in area schools GOODELL Three Goodell women have begun work in three different schools in the area. Mrs. Leown Proper, who was graduated from ISTC with a B.

A. degree in elementary education, is librarian at the Algona School. Her sister-in-law, Mrs. Joel Burgess, received her B.S. degree at Drake University, Des Moines.

She teaches remedial reading and is librarian in the Klemme School. Her daughter, Joan Burgess, teacher and librarian at Britt, is on leave of absence to finish her schooling. She will be (graduated in December from Colorado University, Greeley, with a B.A. degree. Mrs.

Proper's cousin, Kermit Smith, is A custodian at Ellsworth College, Iowa Falls. Federal Land Bank dividends declared ALGONA- -The Algona Federal Land Bank Assn. here has announced that dividend payments totaling more than $6,000 will be made to members. Eugene Hutchins, manager, said the 300 farmer stockholders will receive dividend checks by mail. Directors of the association are Hugh Black: Algona, dent; Douglas Wildin, Algona; Leander Menke, Swea City; Hugh Rancy, Algona; and LawIrence Dittmer, Lone Rock.

Sept. 6, 1960 15 Globe- -Gazette, Mason City, la. Here in Mason City others. Elizabeth Yates, for many years one of our most beloved authors for both children and adults, has written this time her personal life. "The Lighted Heart" is the story of her marriage, beginning with the years when blindness rapidly began to threaten her husband.

She tells of her search for a haven away from the pressures of city life, to found before blindness so that Bill could "memorize" it. THE HAVEN is an old New. England farm, largely grown back into forest, and edging village. The place, tenderly named Shieling (derived from Scottish word meaning shelter) figures prominently in the book. Everyday life at Shieling is depicted as quietly eventful, ways filled with variety and satisfactions, After Bill lost.

his sight that first winter at Shieling, no element of despair is evident. Only courage is here, and the begintoning of a pattern of life. The entire tone of the book is inspirational, as is the tone every book this author has written. "THE LIGHTED Heart' has qualities to please diverse read- ers. Devotees of New England will find that it meets their specifications: A country auction, the restoration of a 200-year old house, the delights of a four-season year are included.

Dog lovers will feel almost a kinship the author. Those who feel a special concern for the blind will find new insight here, and new ideas. Those who seek the peaceful element of spirituality will find it, not in theme but in flavor. And those who are looking for a book to warm the heart and enrich the experience, will be pleased at this discovery. THIS BOOK appeals to me for another reason also, a reason) aside from its It has published in print both large and clear.

Often, and not only among older readers, the size of the print determines whether or not a desirable book will be read. To placate my conscience regarding the general September column I should have written and didn't-be sure to include the public library in your plans for the busy seasons ahead! Elected to serve on committee for new conference a HAKE Ramon Nelson, Rake, accompanied Mrs. I. M. Tufte of Kiester, to Clara City, where they were delegates to the Constituting Convention of the Southwestern Minnesota District of the American Lutheran Church Women.

Mrs. Tufte and Mrs. Nelson a were both elected to serve on the planning and nominating committee for the newly merged Chain of Lakes Conference at Ceylon, Oct. 11. Then of Lakes Conference will be made up of all churches from three counties, Martin, Wautowon and Fari-1 bault.

Mrs. Nelson is a member of Bethany Lutheran Church north of Rake, and is president of the Blue Earth Circuit W. M. F. Summer guests continue to visit Garner GARNER-Claire Lou Housh, Minneapolis, was a recent guest at the parental C.

N. Housh home. Mr. and Mrs. Charles F.

Bethke and two grandsons, Paradise, have completed a visit with relatives and friends here. Mr. and Mrs. Bud Pritchard have returned to Mesa, following a visit with relatives land friends in the Garner, Britt, Ventura and Mason City vicinities. Recent guests at the Erwin Rosendahl home were Mrs.

Anna Kook, St. Marys, Ohio; Mr. and Mrs. Paul Kropp, Leonard, and Mr. and Mrs.

Curtis Pitkin and family, Andrews, Tex." Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ulrich, Carol Stream, were recent guests at the home of Dr. and Mrs. R.

E. Ulrich here. Mr. and Mrs. William Henschen are visiting Mrs.

Henschen's, sister in Salem, Ore. Mr. and Mrs. M. H.

Hagen left by plane. Wednesday for Ashville, N.C., to visit Mrs. Hagen's mother who is seriously ill. Mr. and Mrs.

Carrol Bakken and family have returned from an extended vacation trip which! took them to California. The visual system of girls tures earlier than that of boys. Sewing and alterations. GA3. 8302.

Adv. Photography by Chapman.Adv. Diggins Dance School, YWCA. New students enroll now, classes in all types of dancing, ages years on Fall term starts Sept. and Sept.

10th. Call GA 4-1435 and leave number. We will contact you.Adv. Rummage: Ladies, girls clothes, Wed. 1018 9th N.W.--Adv.

Wedding PHotos. 1 Lock Photos. Rummage Sale Tues. night and Wed. 422 So.

-Adv. Tappan Ranges at Bring your watch and clock repairs to Nord's Watch Repair, 20th 1st S.E, GA Rummage Sale day and eve. 717 Elm Dr. -Adv. Registrations for Evelyn M.

Rickey School of Dance may be made by calling GA 3-6948. In-! struction in tap, ballet, acrobat-! ic, ballroom and pre-schooli classes. -Adv. Albert Cinkle, Englewood, former Mason City resident, underwent major surgery Aug. 27.

He is recovering satisfactorily at Mercy Hospital. His room is 427. For Sale: 10 ft. Deepfreeze, jig saw, 672 14th N.E. -Adv.

Get your Traveler's Checks at United Home Bank Trust Co. -Adv. Rummage Sale: Clothing, all sizes, draperies. 520 15th S. Adv.

Color finishing. Lock Photos. -Adv. Hibred Tomatoes for sale. 1176 Maple -Adv.

Rummage Sale: Women's and college girls clothing, size 9 to 12, shoes, bags, jewelry, sleeping bag, sporting goods, misc. 20 Oak Drive, rear, through It's tremendous! Witke's Buf. fet, 5:30 to 9 Wednesday. Mountains of wonderful foods. Don't miss it.

Witke Cafe, Clear -Adv. Rummage Tues. night and all kinds of clothes, baby bed, chrome set, davenport, reparable washer, Girl's 16-in. bike, 203 N. Cres.

Two divorces granted in Charles City CITY--Judge T. A. (Beardmore in District granted two divorce decrees. Irene Louella LaCour, 49, Nora Springs, was divorced from Lloyd Howard LaCour, 48, Wav. erly, on a desertion charge.

They were married at loosa, June 1, 1936, and separated in 1954. Stipulation provided that she get household goods, furnishings and car. He is to pay any accumulated up to the time of separation. Two children are of mature age. Lillian D.

Lewis, 34, Nora Springs, was granted a divorce Donald V. Lewis, 36, Rockon a cruel and inhuman treatment charge. She gets cus-! tody of two minor children, all household goods and furnishlings. He was ordered to pay $25 per week child support. They were married Aug.

14, 1943, at Marble Rock. Service station changes hands GOLDFIELD Douglas Nelson, local tank man for the Standard Oil has taken lover the management of the local service station. Larry Frakes has operated it the last several years. Nelson will continue to operate the tank wagon with Marvel Elwood in charge at the station. Elwood, who has quit farming, attended a Standard training course.

has accepted the position of foreman at the Goldfield Manufacturing Co. STUDIES COLLISION RESULTS -Henry Hickey, 74, 916 8th S.E. (left), driver of the vehicle in the ditch (foreground), looks over the scene of the accident. The car he was driving Monday afternoon collided with a car (on roadway) driven by Thomas A. Hendrickson, 20, Mason City.

Hickey was to appear in Justice Frederick B. Shaffer's Court. Highway patrolmen charged Hickey with failing to stop at a Mary Svenson service set for Thursday Mary Svenson, 81, died Mon-: day at the Good Samaritan! Home. She had lived in Mason City 25 years and was a member of the Wesley Methodist Church. Mrs.

Svenson was born July 8, 1879, at Charles City, of John and Effie (Browley) Moore. Surviving are three daughters, Mary Ulstad, Des Moines; Mrs. Henry (Nellie) Kunzman, Mason City, and Mrs. Henry (Frances) Askeland, Milford; a son, George Ryan, Kent, and 12 grandchildren and 14 great! randchildren. She was ceded in death by her husband, five sons, a sister and a brother.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Patterson-James Chapel. The Rev. Harold Fitch, associate pastor of the Wesley Methodist Church, will officiate. Burial will be in Riverside Cemetery at Charles City.

Local farm boy taking part in lowa youth tour Richard Birkholz, Mason City, is one of 38 young Iowans taking part in the 10th annual Iowa Farm Youth Tour through Saturday. The tour is sponsored by the Iowa Development Commission, the state's promotional agency. Tour members are leaders from 4-H, Future Farmers of America, Farm Bureau Young People and rural Boy Scouts. Purpose of the annual tour, which will cover just under 500 miles this year, is to give the rural leaders a first hand look at Iowa's industrial economy tand show them the inter dependence factory and farm in the state's well-being. The group will visit 13 manufacturing plants during the five days of the tour which will take them to Newton, Cedar Rapids, Clinton', Dubuque, Independence, Cedar Falls, Waterloo, Marshalltown and Des Moines.

Mrs. Farrer is house mother at Wyoming Mrs. Royce Farrer 805 Elm Drive, has left for Laramie, where she will be house mother through the school year for Sigma Nu fraternity at the University of Wyoming. She attended a course for house mothers this summer at the University of Oklahoma in Norman. FAREWALL PARTY AREDALE-A farewell party! honoring Mr.

and Mrs. Echol Mennen and daughter, Beverly, was attended by 35 persons. A money gift was given to the Mennens who are moving to Aplington. They have lived miles west of Aredale the last 115 years. SPECIAL NOTICE To All Chrysler Line Owners CHRYSLER--IMPERIAL--DODGE--PLYMOUTH -PLYMOUTH Bill Hawley Motors has the parts, special tools and Chrysler trained mechanics to service Chrysler's complete line of cars--Try Us and Be Convinced.

A PLYMOVIN SOTO LARK MOTORS 6th and So. Washington Phone. GA 4-3463 stop sign. Hendrickson was road two miles south of was traveling west on the said Hickey failed to stop was struck broadside by the intersection. Hendrickson 1 and bruises at a Mason Miss Murphy funeral set for Thursday Miss Bridget Murphy, 90, long-lime resident of Dougherty, died Monday at a Rockwell hospital.

She was born Aug. 19, 1870, at Manitowoc, daughter of Owen and Ellen (McGee) Murphy. Surviving are a sister, Margaret Donnelly, Mason City, and several nieces and neph-! jews. She was preceded in death! by six brothers and four sisters. She was a member of St.

Patrick's Catholic Church of Doughlerty. Solemn requiem high Mass will be celebrated at 9:30 a.m. Thursday at St. Patrick's in Dougherty. The Rev.

Joseph Murphy of Monti, Iowa, a nephew, will officiate. The Hogan McKee Colonial Chapel is in charge. Friends may call at the Murphy residence in Dougherty, where the body will lie in state after 1 p.m. Wednesday, Burial will be in St. Patrick's Cemetery.

Churches resume fall schedules at Riceville RICEVILLE Church services for the First Congregational Church at Riceville will be held at a later hour, with the comling of fall. Sunday school will be at 10 a.m., with classes for all ages. Worship service will at 11 a.m. St. Peters Lutheran, Riceville, with Rev.

Water Schroeder, pastor will have wor. ship at 9 and Sunday school at 110 a.m. Chairman reports savings bond total GARNER--Sales of U. S. Savlings bonds for the first seven months of 1960 reached 56 per cent of quota, according to bert L.

Ollenburg, Garner, volunteer chairman for the sale of savings bonds in Hancock Sales for the month of July totaled $51,721 bringing the total! for the year to $617,480 or 56 per cent of the 1960 quota. The state average for the first seven months of 1960 was 57 per cent or $88.619,704. Certain kinds of seaweed are used for food in the Orient and: in Hawaii. The Japanese have found these plants so important that they have developed huge seaweed farms. headed south on a county Plymouth.

The Hickey car Rock Falls road. Officers for a stop sign and his car the Hendrickson vehicle at was treated for cuts City hospital and released, Flora M. Harris funeral to be held Thursday Funeral services for Miss Flora M. Harris, 90, who died Sunday at her home, will be held at 2:30 p.m, Thursday at the Hogan McKee Colonial Chapel. The Rev.

Kenneth Goodberry, pastor of the Free Metho. Church, will officiate. Visi. tation is at the chapel. until the time of services.

Burial will be in the Vernon Cemetery lat Burchinal. Sorry! We were wrong PRESIDENTIAL GREETINGS -Arrilla Smith celebrated her 91st birthday Tuesday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. George Cornelius, 2303 Jefferson S. W. Mrs.

Smith has four other children, Clay and Delson Smith, both of Minnesota, and Pearl Carle and Marie Hall, both of California. They arranged a postal shower. Among the received was a special birthday, congratulation from White House, signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Wesley farmer dies at 80; Rites Thursday WESLEY- Hansen, 80, died Monday at the Hancock Memorial Hospital, Britt, following a long illness.

Born in Jutland, Denmark, July 26, 1880, he was the son of Andrew and Anna; Hansen. The family came to the U.S. in 1882 and to Wesley in 1890. He had farmed in area all his life. He was married to Anna Pearson, June 1916.

Surviving are his wife, two sons, Andrew, Swea City; Burton, Wesley; three daughters, Mrs. Melbourne Heesch, Forest City; Miss LilHansen, Mason City; Mrs. (Julia) Geisking, Woden, and 19 grandchildren. Funeral services will be day at 2 p.m. at the Evangelical Free Church in Wesley with burial in the Wesley Cemetery.

Blake Funeral Home is in charge. DAVID LADIES AID entertain the David Ladies' Aid in her home northwest of Riceville Wednesday, with Mrs. Floyd McKenna as assisting hostess. DID YOU READ Do You Know? 2 About two persons who were bitten by dogs? That a lawsuit or doctor bills could be costly! Better call us for complete insurance protection. "Honestly It's The Best Policy" DOUGLAS Insurance Agency 212 No.

Federal GA 3-6233 A previous edition of the Globe Gazette stated that Cedar Rapids was the nearest local of the Switchmen's Union on the Rock Island Lines. Mrs. Merle Bartusek, vice president of Carnation Lodge 100, ladies auxiliary to the S.U. of N.A., Manly, calls our attention to Hillcrest Lodge 19 of the Switchmen's Union of North America at Manly. Allen Leslie is president.

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